Add a full keyboard shortcut system and a shortcuts cheatsheet to the web chat
Category: Chat / Web app
Description:
The web chat currently only documents two shortcuts: Enter to submit and Cmd/Ctrl+Enter to submit. Everything else — starting a new chat, switching models, toggling the sidebar, stopping a generation, copying a response, opening settings — requires the mouse. For anyone who uses Venice as a daily driver (especially with long prompts and multi-model workflows), this is the biggest remaining friction in the UI.
Proposed shortcuts (macOS uses Cmd, Windows/Linux uses Ctrl):
Implementation notes:
Keep Enter = submit and Shift+Enter = newline as they are; do not break muscle memory.
Shortcuts should be disabled while the user is typing in a text field, except for the explicit submit/stop ones.
Ideally expose a small "Keyboard shortcuts" entry in Settings that lists them and allows rebinding later.
A
?overlay is a cheap first step and makes the feature discoverable without a docs page.
Why it matters: power users, developers, and anyone on a laptop without a mouse. It also makes the web app feel consistent with other AI chat tools that already ship these.
Alternatives considered: browser-level shortcuts and bookmarklets, but they cannot reach internal app actions like model switching or sidebar state.
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